Freddie Lee Peterkin’s Sounds of The Four Tops Tribute 2009

(C) All dramatic works Freddie Lee Peterkin 2009. All rights are hereby reserved. (Footage filmed before the public and Leonard Lowey & Co Solicitors on September 13th 2009 at The Bull Theatre, 68 High Street, Barnet, EN5 5RT) American Soul & Gospel Singer Freddie Lee Peterkin, the producer and choreographer of Aces, Reach Out, Sounds of the Drifters and Sounds of the Four Tops brings you more stunning production routines in the new show for 2010 from the stable of Motown Soul. This show takes you through all the Four Tops hits and other Soul & Motown Classics. The Sounds of the Four Tops is produced by Freddie Lee Peterkin has who has been producing soul tribute shows for 21 years. He grew up in Pahokee Florida in the American Deep South and his idols were of course Black America’s first international music stars The Four Tops, Temptations and other Motown and Legends. Freddie brought over the first Four Tops and Motown tribute ever seen in Europe to Spain in 1991. The name of the show was “ACES” which came to an end in 2002. In 2004 he produced the Sounds of the Four Tops and this show has been touring with around 200 show dates a year ever since. Controversy has been sparked as Freddie Lee Peterkin took action in 2009 against two UK Motown style theatre shows for misappropriating his original works. He discussed the case in a Sky TV interview in June 2009. Rather than imitating the routines of the original artists, the two national Motown style theatre shows plagerised …

Coconut Creek Elementary School won Paul Davis Restoration’s Fire Safety Project video contest. I believe that they shouldn’t. In the opening of the video (linked below), the song “Light My Fire” by The Doors (or a cover thereof) is used. First, I do not believe that the submitters had the proper licenses to use this song. Licenses for musical use tend to be prohibitively expensive, such that most public school video production programs outright refuse to allow students to use copyrighted (all music is copyrighted, but here we refer to music that is under a license that requires licensing fees) music, instead forcing students to write their own music or use music available from sites such as creative commons or freeplaymusic where licenses are free and less restricted. Secondly, I am of the opinion that, regardless of the copyright status of the song used, the video is still not in compliance with the rules. In Terms of Entry, section 3, the submitter agreed that their entries “are not subject to any third party agreements or any encumbrances of any kind.” A license for a heavily copyrighted song is certainly an encumbrance at least and most likely a legal contract (agreement). Finally, I quote the Terms of Entry section: “By participating in the Contest, (the) Student … assumes all responsibility for the content of the video Entry, Release Forms and other documentation and warrants that the video entry and all elements thereof… are the original work of the Student …
Video Rating: 3 / 5